Hours after TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh shared a stage with a BJP Lok Sabha candidate and praised him, the party on Wednesday removed him from the post. Declining to spell out his next move, Ghosh said he would ...
2 May 2024 Times of IndiaMALDA: The Mercedes Benz (WMD– 4085) with a red beacon parked in Malda’s Kotwali Bhawan garage for the last 18 years serves as a reminder that the legacy of Barkat da or ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury remains to this ...
2 May 2024 Times of IndiaMATHURAPUR: Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said he did not need to learn value or ethics from Union home minister Amit Shah. "Amit Shah said that Mamata Banerjee and TMC want me to be the CM. This ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The mercury shot up to an unbearable 43°C in the city on Tuesday - the second highest April temperature recorded in Kolkata in 70 years (since 1954), the eighth highest maximum temperature in the Alipore Met office's recorded ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: KMRC has completed the critical part of construction of East-West Metro's last cross-passage below Subodh Mullick Square, without causing any ground settlement or inflicting any structural damage to the eight-storey building evacuated last Monday. At this rate, with ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Pravrajika Anandaprana, the fifth president of Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission, passed away on Tuesday at 9.54am due to age related ailments. She was 97. Her condition had been gradually deteriorating for the last two weeks ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Katwa: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee “did not let Modi ji’s schemes reach the poor”. Claiming PM Narendra Modi “had sent Rs 10 lakh crore for Bengal’s development, which were gulped by ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 26-year-old Bangladeshi woman, who had been trafficked to Delhi five years ago, was finally repatriated and reunited with her family at the border on Tuesday. Bangladesh and India govts, which had taken help of Bengal Ham radio ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Wall graffiti in Mandarin script made its debut this poll season in Kolkata’s Chinatown on Tuesday afternoon as part of Trinamool’s campaign for the party’s Kolkata South Lok Sabha candidate, Mala Roy. Cast your vote in favour of ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after homemaker Rehena Khatoon (40) died after being hit by a truck, cops on Tuesday slapped culpable homicide charges on the driver, who is currently on the run. The incident occurred on Hyde Road near Taratala ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Public sector lender UCO Bank is planning to bring down the amount of gross non-performing assets (NPA) to below Rs 6,000 crore by this fiscal-end. At the end of last fiscal, it was Rs 6,463.3 crore.“Recovery and upgradation ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: When Salt Lake was sizzling at 43 degrees Celsius on Tuesday and reeling under severe heatwave conditions, a 52-year-old resident fainted at home. Rushed to a nearby hospital, doctors diagnosed him and said he had suffered heatstroke. The ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Shantanu Bagchi, who played the role of the boy mistakenly kidnapped in place of Mukul in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Sonar Kella’, will join several members of the ‘Sonar Kella’ cast at a commemorative programme for the legend’s birth anniversary ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey feels India could have been a continental powerhouses in the game, had the focus in the past been on the World Cup rather than Asian Games and Olympics. “From 1947 to 1960, India were ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A woman from California, who is now on a trip to Kolkata, suffered a heatstroke and was admitted to a private hospital last Friday. She had fallen unconscious soon after having a meal and had severe symptoms like ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Sabuj Mancha, a platform of organisations and individuals supporting environment has sent a letter to urban development department minister and KMDA chairman Firhad Hakim, asking to withdraw the decision of handing over a ground near gate no 8 ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has constituted a resource mobilisation committee, a work committee and a tender committee for exploring scopes and opportunities of rationalising revenues and mobilising resources and to scrutinise work proposals for administrative ...
1 May 2024 Times of IndiaDHAKA: It is jubilation time for Bangladesh, as a silent feature film made in Dhaka about a gay man won the Special Jury award at the recently concluded Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF). In an industry where films on ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At 41.7°C, Monday touched the highest April maximum temperature in 44 years — equalling the temperature recorded on April 25, 1980.Monday’s maximum was effectively the second highest April temperature recorded in 70 years. In 1954, the maximum temperature ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: In the wake of a growing demand for filtered water and a dip in water level in the Hooghly, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Monday flagged concern of an imminent water scarcity in some pockets of the ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Irked by power cuts across the city amidst an unprecedented heatwave, and wary of its impact on the electorate during the ongoing elections, power minister Arup Biswas convened an emergency meeting with high-level officials of both private utility ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the city reeling under intense heat, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) installed 24 additional water ATMs at different bus stops across New Town for providing free access to drinking water to residents and commuters. Earlier, ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Over 100 residents of two residential buildings located off Rabindra Sarani in Burrabazar area, close to Nakhoda Masjid, had a narrow escape when a fire was reported from a godown adjoining their flats early on Monday morning. The ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University has appealed for funds from the alumni, faculty and students for the treatment of a former student of comparative literature, who is currently undergoing damage care surgeries and treatment at a private hospital, to control further ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court didn’t entertain an affidavit filed by lawyer Koustav Bagchi urging the court to take suo motu cognizance of remarks made by a Trinamool MP against the judiciary. A division bench of Chief Justice TS ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Apollo Multispecialty Hospital Kolkata on Monday told the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) that the hospital was not bound to abide by a health panel directive asking it to refund Rs 5,800 for overcharging on ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Out of the 1.4 lakh candidates who had enrolled for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Board (WBJEEB) exam 80% appeared for the test, the highest ever, despite the heatwave spell in Bengal. The number of candidates who had ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool on Monday launched an-all out attack on BJP over videos of JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda’s grandson allegedly sexually assaulting women, with party brass questioning how PM Narendra Modi could speak of ‘Nari Samman’ in Sandeshkhali ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: All members in the Kolkata Police Dog Squad — especially those who slog long hours of VIP duty in the bomb detection unit, including sanitizing the Eden Gardens on the IPL match days — are now wearing ice ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Ashwa Tokyo from the stable of S Nawab posted an upset victory in the Ravinder Garh Million in New Delhi on Monday. The winner was ridden by Ranjeet Singh.Delhi short results(With Inter-Venue Dividends)1: (6-3-1) Polly 1; Palash 2; ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaBHADRESWAR: A group of Bhadreswar residents has taken an initiative to organise a weekly fair on the banks of the Hooghly to revive a 525-year-old history of the area. The place was popular as Bhadreswarganj during the early 17th ...
30 April 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: After polls concluded in the Queen of the Hills, tourism is back in top gear. Darjeeling woke up to a foggy Sunday morning, offering a perfect escape to the parched tourists from the sweltering south Bengal. Though the ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A blaze erupted in a warehouse located in Kolkata during the early hours of Monday, an official said.In response to the incident, a total of seven fire engines were dispatched to the scene. Firefighters are currently engaged in ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The heatwave that has gripped south Bengal - set to be the longest this century - has caused widespread crop damage and a serious decline in vegetable production, raising the possibility of a sharp price rise.Farmers in the ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaDURGAPUR: A large group of students from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur protested on the college campus, calling for the resignation of the NIT Durgapur director following the tragic death of a second year mechanical engineering student.Arpan Ghosh, ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/SUJAPUR: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee res-erved her sharpest criticism for Congress so far this campaign season at her back-to-back meetings in Malda, the backyard of late Congress stalwart ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury."Remember, Congress can never win in Bengal. They ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city is unlikely to get any respite from the heat for about a week. Kolkata's maximum temperature could stay above 40°C for the next two days, making 2024 get this century's highest number of April heatwave days. ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Behrampore: BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday lauded the PM Narendra Modi-led “mazboot sarkar” and called Bengal govt a “majboor sarkar”. Speaking at two rallies, Nadda claimed CM Mamata Banerjee had “stalled development” in the state, was “soft ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: More students from across Bengal universities have made it to the toppers’ list of GATE 2024. Among these toppers, Samparna Mittra from St Xavier’s College and Soumya Biswas from Jadavpur University have bagged all-India second rank in economics ...
29 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 23-year-old helmetless biker died after his two-wheeler skidded on Lake Gardens flyover and his head rammed against the concrete sidewall of the flyover on the eastern slope around 5 am on Sunday. The pillion rider suffered multiple ...
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